ActionScript 3.0 Bible, 2nd Edition

Introduction xli

Part I: ActionScript 3.0 Language Basics 1

Chapter 1: Introducing ActionScript 3.0 3

Chapter 2: ActionScript 3.0 Language Basics 15

Chapter 3: Functions and Methods 39

Chapter 4: Object Oriented Programming 51

Chapter 5: Validating Your Program 103

Part II: Core ActionScript 3.0 Data Types 111

Chapter 6: Text, Strings, and Characters 113

Chapter 7: Numbers, Math, and Dates 125

Chapter 8: Arrays 145

Chapter 9: Vectors 167

Chapter 10: Objects and Dictionaries 181

Chapter 11: XML and E4X 191

Chapter 12: Regular Expressions 225

Chapter 13: Binary Data and ByteArrays 257

Part III: The Display List 271

Chapter 14: Visual Programming with the Display List 273

Chapter 15:Working in Three Dimensions 301

Chapter 16: Working with DisplayObjects in Flash Professional 321

Chapter 17: Text, Styles, and Fonts 329

Chapter 18: Advanced Text Layout 367

Chapter 19: Printing 399

Part IV: Event-Driven Programming 407

Chapter 20: Events and the Event Flow 409

Chapter 21: Interactivity with the Mouse and Keyboard 429

Chapter 22: Timers and Time-Driven Programming 461

Chapter 23: Multitouch and Accelerometer Input 473

Part V: Error Handling 489

Chapter 24: Errors and Exceptions 491

Chapter 25: Using the AVM2 Debugger 505

Chapter 26: Making Your Application Fault-Tolerant 523

Part VI: External Data 531

Chapter 27: Networking Basics and Flash Player Security 533

Chapter 28: Communicating with Remote Services 561

Chapter 29: Storing and Sending Data with SharedObject 571

Chapter 30: File Access 589

Part VII: Sound and Video 603

Chapter 31: Playing and Generating Sound 605

Chapter 32: Playing Video 625

Chapter 33: Capturing Sound and Video 643

Part VIII: Graphics Programming and Animation 655

Chapter 34: Geometric and Color Transformations 657

Chapter 35: Programming Vector Graphics 687

Chapter 36: Programming Bitmap Graphics 733

Chapter 37: Applying Filters 769

Chapter 38: Writing Shaders with Pixel Bender 803

Chapter 39: Scripting Animation 835

Chapter 40: Advanced 3D 855

Part IX: Flash in Context 877

Chapter 41: Globalization, Accessibility, and Color Correction 879

Chapter 42: Deploying Flash on the Web 897

Chapter 43: Interfacing with JavaScript 905

Chapter 44: Local Connections between Flash Applications 911

Index 921